tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974322791812743403.post3126119977247626936..comments2024-03-28T17:37:11.174+00:00Comments on ZEPHYRINUS.: The Imperial Abbey (Prince-Bishopric) Of Fulda Reichskloster (Fürstbistum), Fulda, Germany. Imperial Abbey Of The Holy Roman Empire.Zephyrinushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01179350648709554049noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974322791812743403.post-86536102949668565752021-06-16T11:54:55.676+01:002021-06-16T11:54:55.676+01:00Zephyrinus is most gratified, and blessed, to have...Zephyrinus is most gratified, and blessed, to have such competent, interesting, and erudite, Commenters, such as Dante Peregrinus.<br /><br />This outstanding Comment throws much light on Fulda Abbey and The Benedictines.<br /><br />Thank You, Dante Peregrinus.Zephyrinushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01179350648709554049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4974322791812743403.post-52334670748995477072021-06-15T23:58:23.854+01:002021-06-15T23:58:23.854+01:00Another fascinating “focus” by “Dom” Zephyrinus, o...Another fascinating “focus” by “Dom” Zephyrinus, on the once-great Benedictine Abbey of Fulda, and of course the still-surviving Abbey Church, the site of the tomb of S. Boniface. <br /><br />This article spurred me to read more on the background of Fulda Abbey: and I did not know until now that one of their greatest abbots was Rabanus Maurus, who was taught by the great Alcuin of York (Alcuin is credited with much of the Catholic traditional exorcism [pre-1965] rite and its power over the evil spirits, according to the late Fr. Gabriel Amorth) during the times of Charlemagne. Nearly every Catholic has heard of at least one of Rabanus Maurus’ hymns—the mysterious Veni Creator Spiritus, sung of course at Pentecost but also at traditional Catholic ordination rites. Another [less well known today] Maurus hymn was always sung at the feasts of S. Michael, “Christus Sanctorum Decus Angelorum” (“Christ, the Fair Glory of the Angels”), and I did not know that the great Ralph Vaughn Williams harmonized this hymn and it appears in the Episcopal Church Hymnal, at least in the United States).<br /><br /> Back to Fulda Abbey: as Zephyrinus knows (I did not know), the great Abbey finally fell afoul of the secularization movement in Germany in the 1800s and was dissolved in 1803. Some of its great library was saved and brought to the Vatican library. At least we are fortunate that the ruling nobles allowed the Monastery church to become the Catholic cathedral, preserving it and the burial place and shrine of Saint Boniface. There are at least two Benedictine monasteries (one for nuns, one for men) now in Fulda but they were founded sometime after Bismarck in the 20th century, and they are not historically connected with the once-great Abbey.<br /><br /> One other reason that Fulda is important: At a conference of religious, mostly Benedictines, held in 1980 at Fulda (chosen because it is considered the founding place of Catholicism in Germany), Pope John Paul II gave a very striking address on the hidden Third Secret of Fatima. He warned (1)!that one aspect of the third secret was that if people were to hear of its apparently dismaying content without a willingness to convert, it would be fruitless; and (2) another aspect he warned was that Christians must be ready as in the past to die for their faith. This was one year before he was nearly assassinated by Mehmet Ali Agca in 1981 in the piazza in front of S Peter’s. But that is a fairly involved subject for another day.<br /><br /> However Fulda once again gleams as a beacon from the past, and the Shrine of Boniface, into the future.<br /><br /> Dante Peregrinushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12515903353903718661noreply@blogger.com